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How Homeland Security plans to counter "foreign adversaries"

Secretary Nielsen. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen today will outline her priorities for the first time — including protecting election security and countering foreign meddling — during a House Appropriations Committee hearing.

Nielsen will say fully enforcing immigration laws is a main priority of her department.

Nielsen will reiterate a "shared responsibility" culture of preparedness for disaster, saying local and state governments are best positioned. FEMA has moved this way, but she is doubling down and making it a department priority.

DHS priorities:

Securing and managing our borders and enforcing our immigration laws.

Protecting our nation from terrorism and countering threats: "Terrorists are adapting ... crowd-sourcing their violence through online radicalization and recruitment."

Preserving and upholding the nation’s prosperity and economic security.